Local Teachers posted to Wajir, Mandera applying for transfer citing Insecurity

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has reacted to statements coming from education stakeholders and leaders from Nothern Kenya, insisting that the problem bedevelling the local education sector was self-inflicted…

While applauding the effort by the locals to fill-up the space created by teachers fleeing from what they claim is insecurity, Ibrahim Hish, the regional director of the TSC said even locals are now applying for transfer whilst giving insecurity as an excuse, Speaking to Local news, Ibrahim said TSC has been posting ethnically Somali teachers to the Northeastern counties of Mandera, Wajir and Garissa since 2020.

“More than 50 percent of the teachers recruited and posted to Northeastern schools are locals. That trend has been ongoing for two years now,” Ibrahim noted, He stated that the call by stakeholders for the young people to join teaching colleges has borne born fruits “because more students from the region are now joining teacher’s training colleges than before and TSC is sending more to the region to fill the void created by the non-locals.”